low level fonts

low level fonts

[Adam Lindsay]

hi all.

what's your best way of getting the current font name, regardless of how
it's set (e.g., typescript, unicode, definedfont, low-level \font
definitions...)?

I certainly know about \truefontname{}, but what to put in the braces?
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Re: low level fonts

[Hans Hagen]

Adam Lindsay wrote:
> hi all.
> 
> what's your best way of getting the current font name, regardless of how
> it's set (e.g., typescript, unicode, definedfont, low-level \font
> definitions...)?
> 
> I certainly know about \truefontname{}, but what to put in the braces?

tex: \fontname\font

also in context: \purefontname\font

\font\myfont AdamBold at 123pt

\fontname    \myfont -> AdamBold at 123pt
\purefontname\myfont -> AdamBold

so,

\definefont[Whatever][\purefontname{\font} at 24.56pt]

is probably what you're looking for

Hans




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Re: low level fonts

[Adam Lindsay]

Hans Hagen said this at Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:11:49 +0100:

>tex: \fontname\font

Thanks Hans. That's reliable.

>also in context: \purefontname\font

This fails with the XeTeX quoted-with-spaces fonts (just gives "Chaparral
) . I wasn't looking to test that sort of thing, but there you go.

Clearly \def\splitoffpurefontname#1 #2\\{#1} isn't enough. :/
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Re: low level fonts

[Adam Lindsay]

Adam Lindsay said this at Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:48:40 +0000:

>Clearly \def\splitoffpurefontname#1 #2\\{#1} isn't enough. :/

To answer my own question, this (in spec-xtx?) should be enough (I wanted
the quotes stripped so that I could insert things):

\def\purefontname#1%
  {\doiffirstcharelse"{\expandafter\string\fontname#1}%
     {\expandafter\dodqpurefontname}
     {\expandafter\dopurefontname}
   #1\relax}

\def\dopurefontname#1%
  {\expandafter\splitoffpurefontname\fontname#1 \\}

\def\splitoffpurefontname#1 #2\\{#1}

%D No single-quote version is needed now because
%D \XETEX\ returns double-quotes.

\def\dodqpurefontname#1%
  {\expandafter\dododqpurefontname\fontname#1 \\}

\def\dododqpurefontname"#1"#2\\{#1}



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Re: low level fonts

[Hans Hagen]

Adam Lindsay wrote:

> Clearly \def\splitoffpurefontname#1 #2\\{#1} isn't enough. :/

if this fails ...

\unprotected
\def\purefontname#1%
   {\@EA\splitoffpurefontname\@EA{\@EA\unstringed\fontname#1} \\}

... then you're stuck for a few days (tomorrow i'm away)

Hans

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